The NY Times app has consistently had the outbreak in one of the top 2-3 spots for weeks now. Their live updates listed right now show official figures from Ira

The NY Times app has consistently had the outbreak in one of the top 2-3 spots for weeks now. Their live updates listed right now show official figures from Iran, Italy, and South Korea, as well as news about China and global markets reacting to the news. I’ve been closely watching both the NYT and the more panic-driven subreddits for a month now and I haven’t seen anything of substance that the NYT has missed. They usually lag by minutes to as much as a day, likely because they’re actually fact-checking instead of just mashing the post button like Reddit. If you’re looking for large news organizations to freak out about every little unsubstantiated rumor or crackpot theory that circulates the web, then I don’t know what to tell you. Except that you’re willfully ignoring the 90% of the time those crackpot ideas turn out to be wrong and spreading them to billions of people would do far more harm than good, especially compared to just waiting to get the facts straight.